US sends Ukraine detailed plan to end the war with Russia
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🗓️ 21 November 2025
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When news broke that President Trump was preparing to present Ukraine and Russia with a plan for peace, many were wary of what the proposal might entail. As details began to leak last night, it appears that at least some of those concerns were warranted. However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appears open to discussion, even if many of the nation’s European allies are not. Jonah Goldberg once noted that “Self-awareness is indispensable to seeing the lines between what you want to be true and what is actually true.” Unfortunately, self-awareness tends to be a quality that many of us struggle to consistently live out. And the results are often catastrophic.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day. It's Friday, November the 21st, 2025, and you've joined us for Denison Forum's Daily Article podcast. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article written by Dr. Ryan Dennison, our senior editor for theology. |
| 0:18.4 | When news broke that President Trump was preparing to present Ukraine and Russia with a plan for peace, |
| 0:25.2 | many were wary of what that proposal might entail. |
| 0:28.3 | As details began to leak last night, it appears that at least some of those concerns were warranted. |
| 0:33.5 | However, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy appears open to discussion even if many of the |
| 0:39.7 | nation's European allies are not. Axios reported the complete list, but some of the most important |
| 0:45.8 | points are Ukraine would not be allowed to join NATO now or in the future, and NATO would not |
| 0:52.2 | be allowed to station troops in Ukraine. Ukraine would, however, be eligible to join the future and NATO would not be allowed to station troops in Ukraine. Ukraine would, however, |
| 0:55.9 | be eligible to join the EU and would receive short-term preferential access to the European market. |
| 1:01.7 | Ukraine would receive what one U.S. official described as an explicit security guarantee from the U.S., |
| 1:08.6 | although the details of what that guarantee would entail are still unclear. |
| 1:13.2 | The current plan marks the first time Trump has been willing to offer such a guarantee officially. |
| 1:18.5 | The eastern Donbos region would be officially recognized as Russian territory, while the 14% currently controlled by Ukraine would become a demilitarized buffer zone between the two nations. |
| 1:31.8 | $100 billion in frozen Russian assets will be used to help Ukraine while the proposal also calls for Europe to invest $100 billion in the reconstruction. |
| 1:42.1 | All prisoners and civilians currently held captive by either |
| 1:45.6 | side, including the children taken by Russia, will be returned while a family reunification |
| 1:51.7 | program will be implemented as well. Overall, the plan appears to clearly favor Russia over Ukraine, |
| 1:58.3 | though the circumstances of the war meant that this scenario was always the most likely. |
| 2:03.2 | The question now is whether the plan provides enough room for both sides to agree. |
| 2:08.0 | Seating the land currently controlled by Russia, much less giving up territory still controlled by Ukraine, |
| 2:14.2 | has long been the most difficult aspect of any negotiations for peace. |
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